Game apparatus



Aug. 4, 1925.

1,548,507 0. w. BROWN GAME APPARATUS Filed April 16, 1923 I III-III.-

Patented Aug. 4, 1925.

UNITE S'IA'IES cHEsrEaw. enowu, or GI-IICAGQ, ILLINOIS.

GAME APPARATUS,

Application filed April 16, 1923. Serial No. 632,4:50.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Crrns'rnn IV. BROWN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in GameApparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My inventionrelates to games designed to be played within doors, uponparlor table, or similar place in the home or club, and the principalgame to be played is a simulation of the base ball game as now playedout of doors. The object being to provide means by which the players maymake plays similar to those played in the usual game of base ball.

A further object, is to provide such a game, in which the individualplayers may develop personal skill, and thereby increase the interest'inthe game by such competition. With the above and other objects in viewhereinafter set forth specifically, my invention consists of the design,and arrangement of parts shown and described herein, and illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is. a plan view of a game board.

Figure 2 is a plan and a sectional view of one of the players propellingdisks.

Figure 3 is a plan and sectional view of one of the smaller disks to bepropelled upon the field by the players propeller disk.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my said invention, I haveshown a game board 1, which may be of any convenient size and shape,having a rail 2 upon three sides. A base ball diamond and field as 3 and3 are laid out upon said board, and the fielding position of eachfielder is indicated by the usual initials and each such fieldersposition is enclosed with a line to indicate the effective playing areacovered by such fielder in the play to be hereinafter described. Theextension of the foul line is indicated at 4: and 5 by the continuationof the base lines to 1st base and 3rd base in the usual manner todistinguish between foul plays and fair hits. Lines are also drawn as at6 and 7 to indicate the limits within which hits are counted as 1 base,two base or 3 base hits.

At the home plate I have preferably at tached a piece of felt, cloth orrubber, to form a pad or resilient cushion from which the playshereinafter described are. made, and all plays should be made from thispad,

at 10. At 12 I have shown two score boards where the respective playersmay keep tally of the runs scored, and at 11 I have shown locationswhere counters may be placed to 69 vide each player with a playerspropelling disk as 8, and nine smaller disks as 9 each, one of the smalldisks representing each one of the usual number of nine players employedon each side in base ball. When two players play, ach one is supposed torepresent one of the contending teams, and is provided with one of theplayers propelling disks 8, which takes the place of the usual batemployed in base ball for propelling the vided with 9 of the smallerdisks 9, which take the place of the ball usually employed in playingbase ball.

In the play, the players take turns at bat as customary in base ball,and each side plays as hereinafter described, until 3 men are put out inthe manner described hereinafter in play, when the side retires and theother side goes in to bat. I

In playing my said game, the first player at bat places one of his smalldisks 9 upon the pad 10 at home plate and places the edge of his playerspropelling disk 8 upon it, gradually sliding the disk 8 rear-ward1yuntil it slips off the rear edge of the smaller disk 9. This action. ifproperly performed, propels the smaller disk 9 upon the playing field,and the play is determined by the portion of the field upon which thedisk 9 comes to rest. If it rest half or more back of the foul line, itcounts for a strike and the disk is again placed upon the pad, andpropelled forward in the same manner. If the disk plays three fouls, theplayer will be declared out on three strikes, and the disk is placed inone of the designated areas 11 to indicate 1 player out. If this diskor. any disk 9 played thereafter comes to rest upon the field forward ofthe foul line, and not touching the line of any indicated fieldersposition, it will be declared a base hit, or two or three base hitaccording to the portion of the field it comes to rest upon. The disk isthen placed upon the proper base to indicate the number of bases of thehit, and another disk is played in similar manner the disks being movedfo ard. the numbe of bases indi ball on to the field, and each player isprocated at each play, and each disk which is thus moved across homeplate is scored for a run. If instead of falling upon fair territory,the disk 9 comes to resttouchi-ng the line, or Within the line of anyfielders indicated position, the player will be declared out, and thedisk is placed in the portion of the board to indicate the player to beout. When three players have been declared out in either of the aboveindicated methods, the side at bat is retired, and the other side comesin to bat, and proceeds in a similar manner until three are declaredout. In this manner the play may be continued for nine innings, thescore being kept in the score board indicated for such purpose in theusual manner of base ball scoring.

I have preferably employed disks 9 which have a greater curvature uponone surface than upon the other, as shown in cross section in Figure 3,as this gives the player greater latitude in his play, as the samepressure will propel the disk different distances, according to the sidewhich is toward the pad 10. The disks 9 may have an abbreviation uponeach to indicate the fielding position supposed to be assigned to suchdisk, and said disks may be of two different colors, one to indicate theRed SoX, for in stance and one toindicate the White Sox. The disks 9 and8 may be made of bone, ivory, hard rubber, shell or other suitablematerials, and the thickness and weight may be varied, if preferred, tovary the propelling qualities of the disks and thus call for greaterskill on the part of the player to propel the disk upon suitable portionof the fair field to score for 1 or more base hit.

In the foregoing indicated method of play, I have followed as closely asmaybe the regular rules followed in organized base ball and which arewell known to most young people who Will desire to play this game. Irealize that said play may be varied, to suit any players, withoutdeparting from the scope of my said invention, and many different gamesmay be played with the same means herein described.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is the following 7 1. A game apparatuscomprisinga board having a base-ball field represented thereon, ayieldable pad at home plate, lines surrounding each individual fieldersposition, player propelling disks, and circular playing units forpropelling upon the field from the pad.

2. A game apparatuscomprising a regularly indicated base-ball field,abbreviations to indicate the playing position of each individualp1ayer,-lines to indicate the put-out areas over which each said playermay play, a foul line, lines to indicate one base, two base and threebase hits, a yieldable pad at or near home plate, a 'players propellingdisk, and smaller disks for propelling from the pad upon the field bymeans of the propelling disk.

' 3. A game apparatus comprising a board having a regularly indicatedbaseball field thereon, a pad at the home plate, player propellingdisks, and player unit disks to be propelled from the pad by a propellindisk, each player disk having upper an lower curved surfaces, thecurvature of one of the curved surfaces being greater than the curvatureof the other curved surface whereby 'to propel the player disks longeror shorter distances according to the curved surface of the player disksnext to the ad. In testimony whereof, I have duly a xed my signature tothe foregoing s eclfication.

CHESTER W. ROWN.

